4 Seasons of Embroidery from Purl Soho + Egg Press

Purl Soho and Egg Press have gotten together to create a labor of love! Our 4 Seasons of Embroidery Kit combines a little bit of life’s best pleasures: old friends, natural beauty, and hand crafting.

The 4 Seasons of Embroidery project started as a friendship between Purl Soho and Portland, Oregon-based design company, Egg Press. Both share a devotion to traditional crafting and modern design, and Egg Press also brings a mastery of letter pressing and typeface design.

But it is our mutual respect for the handmade that most urgently brought this bi-coastal partnership into being. Together, we took great pleasure in bringing to the timeless craft of embroidery a look that is pared-down, playful and very fresh!

The 4 Seasons of Embroidery Kit centers around a compelling tree with a message of life and renewal, family history and natural bounty.

Each Kit includes four transfer designs that depict a year in the life of this proud tree, from bubbly spring and verdant summer to resplendent autumn and serene winter.

To magnify that message, we also created a simple woodgrain design. Use this transfer to give an organic and graphic expression to your more abstract thoughts.

Woodgrain proved to be a wonderful vehicle for our letter and number designs, too. With two transfer sets of alphabets (lower and upper cases) and a set of zero-to-nine numbers, you’ll be equipped to personalize your projects with initials, dates, and messages for the next generation.

And because we love beautiful packaging and hate senseless garbage, all of this is contained in a sturdy tube with a lovely letter-pressed top created by Egg Press. Once you’ve used what’s inside, use the tube for paint brushes or wooden spoons, buttons or knick knacks, dried flowers or chopsticks! Plus, such considered packaging makes this kit a very special gift!

For stunning pillows, wall art and linens, the 4 Seasons of Embroidery Kit is our idea of crafting bliss! To get started on your own heirloom projects, please click here for the 4 Seasons of Embroidery Kit and here for the Packet. And happy stitching!

25 Responses to 4 Seasons of Embroidery from Purl Soho + Egg Press

I'm intrigued by using "hook and loop tape for plying thread." Would you consider posting a tutorial for this technique? I find separating floss plies eternally frustrating! Thanks for your inspiring products and projects!

Hi! I just finished my fall tree, and I want to start my winter one. I really want to add a snow element to this as we live in a snowy part of the world. Does anyone have any ideas? I don't really know how to go about adding snowfall to the branches, maybe a splitstich mound outline? And some snow pile outlines on the ground?

The other idea I had was to just embroider the outer stitches of the actual branches in white. Do you think french knots could work as snowflakes? I'm terrible at french knots though & terrified to start the spring one as a result!

Sorry about the million and one questions, and thanks for a beautiful kit! I'm thinking about embroidering the spring/summer ones on an extremely pale blue linen if I can find one.

Your ideas all sound like they could work great and you can always rip out the stitches if you don't like it! You might want to use the spring tree template and just embroider the pink sections in white, like little snow balls!

I left out the leaves and instead did a split stitch ground in white under the tree, french knotted in some snowflakes, and stitched the tree in alternating patches in white and silver embroidery thread. I love how it turned out! So glad I conquered my fear of the french knot, as the spring one is next… I can't wait! Love this kit.

I ordered this kit the moment I saw it. I was so excited to receive it in the mail; however, I can barely see the transfer after ironing it on. I followed the directions precisely, but I am guessing as to where the branches are and don't feel confident. Did I so something wrong? I've been thinking of purchasing a lighter colored fabric, but I just love the fabric the kit came with…

Hi, I am also new at embroidery. I have transferred successfully and stitched the tree trunk for spring. I'm not sure which color thread to use for each pink flower ball. Did it come with a color chart that tells you which DMC to use for each different stitch?Thank You!

These are so beautiful that you’re making me want to do embroidery again! I haven’t done any in decades; I’ve been a fanatical knitter. But your gorgeous kits may make me take a break from knitting and embroider again.